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Description:
Intuitive find & replace CLI

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: cli text-processing regex developer-tools find-replace

Install: brew install sd

About:
sd is a fast and intuitive find & replace CLI tool that provides a simpler and more user-friendly alternative to sed. It leverages regular expressions for powerful text processing while offering a more readable syntax and safer defaults.

Key Features:

Simple, intuitive command-line syntax
Fast performance with regex support
Safe defaults to prevent accidental data loss
Cross-platform compatibility

Use Cases:

Batch renaming files using regex patterns
Refactoring code across multiple files
Processing log files and text data

Alternatives:

sed – sd offers more intuitive syntax and safer defaults compared to sed's terse and error-prone interface
ripgrep – ripgrep excels at searching while sd specializes in find-and-replace operations

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 14, 2025 4:40am		0	VERSION_BUMP	90c0ea3f